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| 2016-05-23 |
| Thomas Lifson argues that Bernie Sanders presents "a mortal danger to not only the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, but the continued viability of the party’s strategy of mouthing populist rhetoric while practicing crony capitalism. Too late, they now realize he actually means what he says." ...We expect revolutionaries to be indifferent to money. Yet in reality the Left thinks about nothing but money as the Venezuelan socialists who have stolen $350 billion from the treasury, according to the Basel Institute on Governance, should have proved to the world. If it's any consolation to the Democratic Party, Bernie Sanders is not as indifferent to lucre as he seems. Sanders' filings show he's received money from Super PACs and donors with links to Wall Street -- so he may be normal after all. Perhaps the first major 20th century writer to realize that the ambition of all true Communists should be to become billionaire revolutionaries was Hilaire Belloc. In his 1912 book, The Servile State, Belloc argued the then-burgeoning Communist movement would find more success ditching Leninism in favor of an alliance with Crony Capitalists to reinstate Slavery. "Slavery, or a Servile State in which those who do not own the means of production shall be legally compelled to work for those who do, and shall receive in exchange a security of livelihood." ...Belloc argued that the only two exits from the evils of crony capitalism were an expansion of property holdings to the great majority of the people (the classic conservative program) or collectivism. Of the two alternatives, the elites would find collectivism far the easier path. ...Best of all, the socialist agitator was free under the arrangement to engage in his favorite project of remaking mankind to free him from "the ravages of drink: more fatal still the dreadful habit of mankind of forming families and breeding children." Belloc's Servile State anticipated the carnival at Davos with its weird hodgepodge of moralism, pseudo-scientific causes and economic diktat precisely because it understood what the power coalition of the future would look like. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 "What will you be having, sir?" "I'll be having the Western sandwich..." "If he's having a Western Sandwich, then I want an Eastern Sandwich!" "Premier, I'm sorry, there is no Eastern Sandwich." "Then I want the eastern portion of his Western Sandwich!" |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2016-05-23 19:02 |
| #2 The real communist creed. "What is mine is mine! What is yours is mine!" |
| Posted by: 3dc 2016-05-23 17:20 |
| #1 Belloc's writings about 'servile state collectivism' kind of reminds one of the national makeup of Panem from 'The Hunger Games'. |
| Posted by: Mullah Richard 2016-05-23 15:47 |